File talk:UnionPay used in Chiba 20160212.jpg

"Incorrect" spelling ("Chiba" vs. "China"); ALSO: lying robot

Original Intent

When I first clicked on the link [then "red", at that time] labeled << "Talk" >>, at (from) a certain web page -- namely, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UnionPay_used_in_Chiba_20160212.jpg -- (and, as an aside, that web page did seem to EXIST! ... although maybe not with perfect spelling) -- it was because I had noticed that the title of the page -- and the URL as well -- contained the character string "Chiba", which seemed to me to be a mistake (perhaps a TYPO, or a spelling error).

My original intent was: simply to add a comment here, with a title such as << Incorrect spelling ("Chiba" vs. "China") >> ... to inquire about what the reason was why that spelling ("Chiba" vs. "China") had been used.

And I suspected that even if there might be some explanation, of how the mishap [perhaps] had occurred, ... still, there would not actually be any [good] *** reason ***, why that [incorrect!] spelling should be used. (right?)

That spelling -- ("Chiba" vs. "China") -- does not seem correct (neither in the title of a ".JPG" page, nor in a URL).

Any comments about that? Was it just a TYPO? or a spelling error? Or is there some third possibility, that I had not even counted upon?

(with apologies to Arlo Guthrie, ... as in, the quote about "there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon", in [the entry starting with "Now friends, there was", under] the "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" section of https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arlo_Guthrie)

"Liar" robot?

But *then*, when I clicked on that link, -- which seemed to point to the URL "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File_talk:UnionPay_used_in_Chiba_20160212.jpg&action=edit&redlink=1" -- I got a big surprise.

The [web] page that popped up then, said, (in part):

Wikipedia does not have a talk page with this exact title. Note that the corresponding subject page File:UnionPay used in Chiba 20160212.jpg also does not exist.

and ... to me, the second sentence (of that "block quote"), ... did not appear to be TRUE!

(and of course, once I submit this "edit" to the "Talk" page, then ... the first sentence there, will probably STOP being true.) (right?)

Am I missing something here? Does the page that -- "allegedly" -- "does not exist", REALLY not exist? Or was the robot [or "script" or whatever...] that "issued" that second sentence, somehow [egregiously mistaken, or] a LIAR?

OR ... is there some other possibility, that did not even occur to me?

Any comments?

Thanks in advance, from --Mike Schwartz (talk) 10:35, 23 August 2020 (UTC)